Interpreter works 24 hours a day

Interpreter works 24 hours a day

As an interpreter, Santi Evelyna L.G. spends all her time with her charges. Literally.

"I go wherever they go, in meetings and when they meet other delegates," Santi told The Jakarta Post.

When asked how many hours a day she spends with them: "I sleep in the same room as Bu Den Upa," Santi said, referring to Den Upa Rombelayuk, a delegate representing indigenous people from Toraja, South Sulawesi.

Santi and her colleague Mardi Minangsari have been appointed as interpreters to the non-English-speaking representatives of the indigenous people group from Indonesia.

Respectively they are from the non-governmental organizations Working Group on Forest Land Tenure and Telapak.